Word: roaring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fighting French (MARCH OF TIME, 20fh Century-Fox) begins as a squadron of British planes roar in so low and so fast over Occupied France that the land beneath them flows and tilts like a stormy sea. This mood of hazardous intimacy is the fierce dramatic pacesetter for a picture of a totally defeated nation coming to rebirth by the simple act of refusing to concede itself licked...
...House of Commons Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India, raised an angry fist. A roar of applause broke when he said: "We are not quitting India on anybody's orders...
...cannons that rumble and roar...
...Good Drive!" The President rode between two giant assembly lines, where a hundred General Lees-the new all-welded medium tank-were abuilding. He waved to 5,000 astounded workmen, who lined up in a solid wall to greet him. On the testing ground, he watched 50 tanks roar through mud and dust. One tank drove straight at him, slogged through a muddy testing hole, ground to a stop ten feet away. The young Polish driver stuck his dirty face from the turret and grinned. "A good drive!" shouted the President...
Miss Weekes did not see the raider. She was presiding over her classroom. But she heard the roar, of course, and the rat-a-tat of its machine guns. The Jerry must be raking the streets, she decided, and. as quickly as she could, she herded her class into a place which she considered comparatively safe near a hallway. In another classroom Headmaster Stevenson said briskly: "Under the desks, boys...